Life, 1923-12-27 · page 15 of 37
Life — December 27, 1923 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate satirical cartoons and related text about charitable giving. **Top cartoon**: Shows what appears to be a police officer or authority figure at a window, with accompanying text joking about someone losing their job on the police force after sleeping on duty and arriving late to headquarters. **Bottom cartoon**: Titled "When Good Fellows Get Together," it depicts a chaotic collision between two commuters at Grand Central Terminal on December 24th (Christmas Eve). The figure is surrounded by exploding luggage, packages, and debris, satirizing the frenzied holiday shopping chaos and crowded conditions at the train station during the Christmas season. The main text discusses Life's Fresh Air Fund charitable endowments supporting poor children's summer trips to the countryside—a contemporary charitable cause.
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‘ LEFE = With Apologies to Santa Claus T seems rather an intrusion to bring the miseries of torrid mid-summer into the midst of Christmas joys, but Santa Claus is not likely to forget. He is too good a friend of little children to be peeved if a little space is taken to ac- nowledge that three other friends of children have ensured that every summer for all time three poor youngsters from ie city tenements will be lifted from the misery of heat and ad air to be sent to the green fields of the country for a wrtnight’s building-up against the ills they have to suffer. This means that Lire’s Fresh Air Fund has received the ecessary two hundred dollars each to create three more *resh Air Endowments. From Mrs. Winchester Dickerson i Helena, Montana, funds have been received to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT NUMBER 262 In Memory of XENopHON WHEELER From R. M. Thompson, Esq., Executor, Erie, Pennsyl- inia, to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT NUMBER 26 Bequest from Mrs. CLaka THompson Ir ‘D From Mrs. M. E rle, Port Jefferson, New York, to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT NUMBER 264 In the Name of Eperte These funds are carefully invested and put in perpetual trust with the Bankers Trust Company to be safeguarded ind reinvested, the income to be devoted to the sending of poor city children to the country under the direction of ’s Fresh Air Fund, to whom all checks should be made It may not have anything to do with Merry Christ- mas, but it makes it likely some children will enjoy that festival who otherwise might have been permanently de- prived of the pleasure by their inability to survive the con- quences of summer heat. POLICE FORC “SURE HE WENT TO SL ON HIS BEAT AND WALKED INTO HEADQUARTERS BEFORE HE WOKE UP. CCORDING to last-minute advices from the three-mile limit, it looks like a black-and-white Christmas. WHEN GOOD FELLOWS GET TOGETHER PORTRAIT OF A HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN TWO COMMUTERS IN THE GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL ON DECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH. comicbooks.com